STUDY GUIDECHAPTER 13 &14

WHY DID LARGE NUMBERS OF IRISH IMMIGRATE TO THE U.S.?

• A consistent potato famine in Ireland• Faced starvation if they remained• Thousands fled Ireland in 1840’s-1860’s.

HOW DID PLANTATION OWNERS MEASURE WEALTH

• Plantation owners measure wealth in numerous ways• Possessions in their home• Clothing• Number of slaves• Number of acres owned

WHAT WAS THE IMPACT OF THE TELEGRAPH

• The telegraph led to thousands of miles of telegraph lines• The telegraph eliminate distance in the

country• Businesses increase sales and productivity

TRANSCENDENTALISTS

• Ralph Waldo Emerson• Concord Hymn

• Henry David Thoreau• Civil Disobedience

• Marget Fuller• Woman in the Nineteenth Century

OTHER WRITERS

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow• Song of Hiawatha• Midnight Ride of Paul Revere

• Walt Whitman• Leaves of Grass• O Captain, My Captain

• Emily Dickinson• Hope

• Harriet Beecher Stowe• Uncle Tom’s Cabin

WHAT WAS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INDUSTRIALIZATION AND THE GROWTH OF

CITIES?

• Industrial leaders began to locate their industry in various areas that suited their businesses.• People looking for work moved to those areas• This movement led to the growth of cities as

people began to “flock” to these areas because there was work• Cities began to grow because people needed to

live close to where they work.

HOW DID TRANSPORTATION DEVELOP DIFFERENTLY BETWEEN NORTH AND SOUTH

• The north had many more miles of railroad track as the years passed.• Canals and steamboats also developed.• The South's network was short and

inefficient. No universal network linking all parts of the region.• Cities of the Northeast and the Mid-West became

key centers of trade and transportation.

EXPLAIN REFORM/ IMPROVEMENTS IN EDUCATION

• Horace Mann• Length school year to 6 months• Better curriculum• Better pay for teachers• Better training for teachers

• Formation of Normal Schools• Educational Opportunities for Girls/Women• Education for people with disabilities (blind/deaf)

TRADE UNIONS

• Organizations formed by people of the same skill –or trade• Formed to deal with better working

conditions

STRIKE

• refusal of workers to work• used by Unions to improve working

conditions

YEOMEN

• Largest group of whites in the South• Did not own slaves• Lived in Upper South mostly• “upland” of Deep South

• Grew crops used for resale and their own use• Farms ranged from 50-200 acres

SLAVE CODES

• Laws meant to control the movement of African slaves• Created to reduce threat of slave

rebellions• Most famous ones made teaching of slaves to read or write a crime

SUFFRAGE

• right to vote• Women pushed for this right in the mid-

1800’s• Elizabeth Cady Stanton• Susan B. Anthony• Lucretia Mott

TEMPERANCE

• Idea or practice of drinking little or no alcohol

• Lyman Beecher- leader

• Maine

COTTON GIN

• Device invented by Eli Whitney

• Separates the seeds from the cotton fibers

• Dramatically increased use of (and value )slaves throughout the South

OVERSEER

• A person that was part of slave life• This individual was in charge of keeping

slaves working• Supervised the work of slaves

MECHANICAL REAPER

• A device invented by Cyrus McCormick• Used to cultivate wheat across the prairie• This invention made the growing of wheat

profitable and the main economic activity on the plains for generations.

HORACE MANN

• Leader in education movement• Called for improvements • Length school year to 6 months• Better curriculum• pay for teachers• Better training for teachers

WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON

• Leader in abolition movement• Begins newspaper in 1830’s• The Liberator

• Called for emancipation• Started the New England Antislavery

Society• Started the American Antislavery Society

SOJOURNER TRUTH

• Born Isabella Baumfree• Slave in New York• Runaway who spoke out

against slavery?- Famous speech

HARRIET TUBMAN

• Most famous “conductor” on the Underground Railroad• Black Moses• Made numerous trips back into the South

to free other slaves

JOHN DEERE

• Invented the steel plow• Allowed for the plowing and planting of the

Great Plains• This invention allowed for larger farms in

the West

FREDERICK DOUGLASS

• Famous African American abolition leader• Runaway slave from Maryland• Worked at antislavery newspaper • NORTH STAR

• Great speaker, traveled speaking against slavery

ELIAS HOWE

• Invented the sewing machine• In 1846• Clothing could now be made faster and

cheaper

SAMUEL MORSE

• Credited with creation of the telegraph machine• Sent coded messages –series of dots and

dashes• Morse Code

NAT TURNER

• African American slave who led one of the most successful slave rebellions in U.S. History• Occurred in Virginia• In 1831• Rebellion caused fear among many slave

owners• Increased slave codes

KNOW NOTHING PARTY

• officially known as the American Party • political party that was Anti-Immigrant/Anti-Catholic• feared the influence and power of new

immigrant groups• Wanted to increase citizenship time

requirements• Nativists

SENECA FALLS

• This was a meeting a women leaders in New York in 1848• Called for fair and equal treatment of

women• Demanded suffrage for women